Season 1 · Episode 13

Heroic Materialism

• Release date
• May 18, 1969
• Runtime
• 50 min
• TMDB score
• 9

Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to the skyscrapers of twentieth century New York. The achievements of the engineers and scientists - such as Brunel and Rutherford - having been matched by the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftsbury.